topic Re: re booting ArchiCAD in Installation & update

re booting ArchiCAD

Anonymous — Fri, 03 May 2024 12:07:51 GMT

If I throw the current ArchiCAD program in the trash and reload the software do I lose the existing job files created?? Dumb question??

Re: re booting ArchiCAD

Laura Yanoviak — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:31:18 GMT

No.

(better to ask a dumb question then have all of your job files disappear)

Re: re booting ArchiCAD

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:36:12 GMT

Thanks for the response !

Re: re booting ArchiCAD

TomWaltz — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:08:48 GMT

You might. It depends on where you saved your files!

Re: re booting ArchiCAD

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:11:49 GMT

All my job files are saved in a project folder on my desktop.

Re: re booting ArchiCAD

Laura Yanoviak — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:15:55 GMT

marks wrote:
All my job files are saved in a project folder on my desktop.

Then you should be OK (as long as the files do not reside within the application folder, right Tom?).

Re: re booting ArchiCAD

__archiben — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:12:27 GMT

Laura wrote:
Then you should be OK (as long as the files do not reside within the application folder, right Tom?).

... or they are files saved in an older version that cannot be read by the new archicad installation . . .

Re: re booting ArchiCAD

Laura Yanoviak — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:27:55 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
... or they are files saved in an older version that cannot be read by the new archicad installation . . .

Another good point. I was clearly making assumptions...

Re: re booting ArchiCAD

David Maudlin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:59:12 GMT

marks:

Also check that you do not have any 3rd party libraries or custom library parts in the application folder (the ArchiCAD 11 Library is in there).

David

Re: re booting ArchiCAD

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:40:35 GMT

Thanks folks,

everything seemed to go smoothly w/ the exception of stairmaker and a issue when quitting ArchiCAD. I seemed to have lost all the stairs in every job I've created w/ 8.1. and when I close a project a bug report comes up saying ArchiCAD has unexpectedly quit. Any thoughts on these 2 issues?

I'll be starting a new project this A.M. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I can forge ahead. I've had this CAD program for 14 years and have never had any serious issues. So I've been very happy w/ it's performance !!

I'm actually in the middle of trying to convince my new firm to adopt ArchiCAD over autocad. I've been touting how great and easy the system is to work with. So imagine my horror and embarrassment when I try to start a project and I can't even launch the program to give a demonstration. Murphys Law in exquisite action!!!

Re: re booting ArchiCAD

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:36:25 GMT

marks wrote:
Thanks folks,

everything seemed to go smoothly w/ the exception of stairmaker and a issue when quitting ArchiCAD. I seemed to have lost all the stairs in every job I've created w/ 8.1. and when I close a project a bug report comes up saying ArchiCAD has unexpectedly quit. Any thoughts on these 2 issues?

Did you uninstall ArchiCAD or just delete the file it was in? Are you on a Mac or PC also? Uninstalling is the way to go otherwise you may have problems.

The stairs by default are saved in the stairmaker file on your computer. Generally you should save them in the project specific library part file on the server so that all computers could access them if they need to.

If you uninstalled properly you may find the stair files are still in the same place as they were before. Try looking under C:\Program Files\Graphisoft\ArchiCAD X.X or the equivalent. Uninstalling wont delete any file that wasn't installed originally from the the cd. If the file is in the trash, can you restore it to its original place then copy the stairs out of it?

Good luck!

Re: re booting ArchiCAD

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:49:26 GMT

Thanks for the reply. I'm running MAC I don't see an "uninstall" command on the Mac.. I got a prompt that the old file was sent to a new folder in the hardrive marked old 8.1 I've placed it in the trash but not emptied it.

Re: re booting ArchiCAD

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:07:06 GMT

marks wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I'm running MAC I don't see an "uninstall" command on the Mac.. I got a prompt that the old file was sent to a new folder in the hardrive marked old 8.1 I've placed it in the trash but not emptied it.

Ah, sorry, I know nothing about Macs! It sounds like you may be able to get it back though if it isn't permanently gone.